Connecting Development to Fair Trade

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Andrew Charlton and Joseph Stiglitz banded together in 2007 to write Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development. In Fair Trade for All, the authors argue for fair trade as a vital catalyst for and component of development, particularly in underdeveloped or poorer countries. This argument, which is claimed by some as an argument for globalization as fuel for Third World developed and prosperity, poses the idea that both free and fair trade can be a powerfully effective way to enhance the wealth potential of underdeveloped countries. Andrew Charlton and the Nobel Prize winning Stiglitz have made what is considered by some to be a complex, challenging and highly controversial argument in Fair Trade for All, one that lays out a radical, though realistic model for more effective management of the trading relationships between wealthy and poorer nations. This published work is seen by many to contain very insightful analyses of fair trade and its relationship to development, as well as well thought out, potentially effective solutions to the trade inequalities that exist throughout the world. Andrew Charlton, an Australian economist and former advisor to the prime minister, attended Oxford University, where he earned both his Master’s and his Doctorate degrees during the last decade. He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and is proud to have won the 2012 John Button Prize. He is also the co-author of Ozonomics, is well-versed in such issues as climate change, free trade and poverty, and was an Australian representative to the G20 Leaders Forum between 2008 and 2010. visit here -